manse

See also: Manse

English

An old manse, Concord, Massachusetts, USA

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mæns/

Etymology 1

From Middle English mansien, apheretic variant of amansien, from Old English āmǣnsumian (“to excommunicate”). More at amanse.

Verb

manse (third-person singular simple present manses, present participle mansing, simple past and past participle mansed)

1. (transitive) To excommunicate; curse.

Etymology 2

From Medieval Latin mansus (“dwelling”), from Latin manere (“to remain”), from whence also manor, mansion.

Noun

manse (plural manses)

1. A house inhabited by the minister of a parish.
   • 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:

     He has caught a glint of steel in the manse gateway, but it is only the minister's bicycle still chained to the trunk of a monkeypuzzle tree as a precaution against unchristian covetousness.

2. (archaic) A family dwelling, an owner-occupied house.
3. A large house, a mansion.

Quotations

• circa 1890: George Otto Trevelyan, Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay

  All favourable hereditary influences, both intellectual and moral, are assured by a genealogy which derives from a Scotch Manse.

Related terms

• manor
• mansion
• son of the manse
• daughter of the manse

Translations

house inhabited by the minister of a parish

• Finnish: pappila (fi)
• German: Pfarrhaus (de) n
• Hungarian: parókia (hu), paplak

• Italian: canonica (it) f, presbiterio (it) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: fara f

Anagrams

• Means, Mensa, Seman, amens, manes, means, mensa, mesna, names, namés, neams, ñames

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Latin

Participle

mānse

1. vocative masculine singular of mānsus